Word: sparkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...escaping through a small aperture become ionized, or build up a small positive electric charge, through the friction of their escape. Hydrogen burns on contact with oxygen. The presence of a slight negative charge of static electricity in the airship fabric or in the air might thus cause a spark sufficient to start the fire. Zeppelin men scouted this idea, however, pointing out that many a German airship came back from bombing London shot full of holes which caused no hydrogen fire...
Whatever the spark's origin, the fire probably meant the end of hydrogen in passenger airships, though the Germans have lost few ships from that cause. The Hindenburg was LZ129. Of her 128 German predecessors, ten never left the drawing board, 25 were lost by storm and accident, six by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked by the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender, two are left-the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst and the sturdy old Graf, which arrived the day after the tragedy in Frankfort from...
...spark of humanity relieved the savage horror of the civil war last week. With Rightist corpses strewn over the El Pardo sector, just northwest of Madrid, General Franco passed word from trench to trench to ask the Leftists for a brief truce during which he might bury his dead. The Leftists gave the cease-fire order and Franco's stretcher-bearers gathered up crumpled bodies while guns in other sectors boomed a gruesome requiem...
...Babes In Arms. Not only because of her physical appearance but because of her propensity for rolling her eyes and giving the customers a continuous big square-mouthed smile, Miss Green is constantly, if unintentionally, in the throes of an imitation of Fanny Brice. Nevertheless, she is the spark plug of Babes In Arms. She dances a little, sings a lot: most charmingly a song called My Funny Valentine, most stridently a song called The Lady Is A Tramp...
...past few years, it has shown steady and marked improvement during the past four weeks. The lowest ebb of the season was reached early in February when Hodder's streak of thirty consecutive victories was snapped by the B.U. Freshmen. This setback seems to have provided the spark that was lacking, and since then the team has looked like a completely new outfit...